About feedback for the Un Job List – FAQ for site users
I really like receiving comments on the UN Job List and I’m grateful for hints on how to improve it. So if you would like to leave some feedback, just use the comment box below. It’s in your interest that your comment is received well take the time and read through the following hints
Comments that belong here
- You found an error somewhere? Great! Please let me know. I might not be able to act immediately (remember this is just a “fun” project I do in my spare time) but I will certainly get back to you.
- You find some UN vacancies that are not on my page yet? PLEASE let me know! The goal here is to provide a complete overview over UN vacancies.
- You have an idea to improve the UN Job List? Keep it coming! From time to time I update stuff and if I know you would like to see something I will include that something.
Comments that don’t belong here
- You have a question on an individual vacancy? Please contact the concerned organisation directly. I’m not affiliated with any of the UN Organisations and I have no insight on the application process, selection criteria and other. Yes, I know it can be quite challenging to get into an agency but there is nothing I can do.
- You have a request for a special vacancy? Like you would love to see some vacancies in the town you live? Or you would like to have special secondment vacancies? Sorry, there is no way I can deliver that. Just to be perfectly clear: I immediately delete comments that ask me individually to send vacancies. I’m doing this page in my spare time and on a voluntary basis. So don’t waste my time and your time with inquiries like this.
Ok, well now fire away and let me know what you think – thanks, Sebastian
90 Responses to “UN Job List: Feedback”
Glad I found your site. I have been trying to bring together RSS feeds from various UN sites and what you are doing is just great.
I think you will find UNIFEM listings here:
http://jobs.undp.org/rss_feeds/UNIFEM.xml
If you take a look at the postings in the last month, you’ll see that they are not included in your database (I thought maybe they’d be under UNDP). For example, the last post on that RSS feed is
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=2948
which I didn’t find on http://unjoblist.org/
I hope this can help. If it does, see this site for UNCDF, GEF, and UNV feeds:
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_rss_feed.cfm
Hi Justin,
that is great feedback – thanks! I will try to look into this and get this fixed.
Cheers,
Sebastian
Hi,
Instead of a list of the UN organizations, on the left-hand side of the page, a drop-down might would be more effective.
Regards,
Chris
Also, I just realized that L vacancies at UNCTAD are here (and not on Galaxy):
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=2105&lang=1
You don’t seem to have these in your dbase. I’m not sure how you parse that info, but I’ll leave that to you. Good luck.
Dear Sebastian,
I couldn’t find any reference to UNEP/CMS on the page. The vacancies of this Bonn-based Secretariat (and the associated do-located Agreements) are posted on http://www.cms.int/secretariat/vacancies.htm.
Cheers, Heidrun
Thanks a lot! I will work on getting these ones up and running, too!
Cheers, Sebastian
Hello Sebastian,
Are you also searching the various country office websistes of e.g. UNICEF, UNFPA or UNDP. Lots of short term consultancies are not posted on the main joblists of these and similar organizations.
Bestest, Jonas
Hi Jonas,
please let me know the pages, you are referring to. Some of the stuff is close to procurement and that is tricky to get. But the HR side of things should definitely be covered – so let me know and I will try to expand my robots…
Thanks! Sebastian
Hi,
Thanks enormousl for your invaluable effort on this matter.
on February 19th, 2008 at 11:41 pm #
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Hello,
You are doing great job. However, this would reach a lot more people if posted through to our email as done by ReliefWeb, OneWorld, Charityjobs.com, etc.
Kindly make a link on this page where it will automatically post these on peoples inboxes. It will be a wonderful action from the team.
Thank you guys.
Regards
Charles
This is agreat resource. Easy to read, well organised, and well linked. I am not a programmer but I can attest for a general reader that the website accomplishes the basic needs.
Hey, what about assistance in putting together a good Resume? – may be a template.
Thanks -Jeff
Great site! Love it! Well done…
Just one change I think would enhance it – that is, to make the RSS feed based on the new jobs page – http://unjoblist.org/lists/NewJobs/
At the moment, my RSS feed reader doesn’t bring up the new jobs as they’re added. It seems to show ones that are close to expiring, which is not so useful.
Thanks for all your work on this!
Hi Steve,
great idea, will do that as soon as I can (most likely on the weekend).
Cheers,
Sebastian
That was quick!
Great, that will be a really useful addition.
Lieber Sebastian Rottmaier,
super Seite!!!
Die Stellenasusschreibungen der WMO (World Meteorological Organzation)vermisse ich noch. Die WMO gehört auch ins UN-System als Specialized Agency.(http://www.wmo.int/pages/vacancies/index_en.html)
Beste Grüsse,
Joachim
Hi Sebastian,
You are doing a great job. Would you know what the age limit is for applying for these positions,
Thanks,
Rajula
This is a great site.
One suggestion: you should add an additional search function by date, i.e. posted within the past 7 days, 30 days, etc, like the Compendium website lets you do. That way one would have a quick ability to search just for the new jobs by a specified criteria.
Thanks!
on May 17th, 2008 at 6:09 pm #
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Hi Joachim,
vielen Dank! Werde sehen, dass ich den D1 noch addedn kann…
Viele Grüße,
Sebastian
Hi Rajula,
not sure if you are asking the right person. To my knowledge there is no limit BUT I would not do a lot. People get tired if they think that the application has not been focussed and is not particularly addressed to one post only.
I think the rationale is like this: Nobody can do everything. So if you would apply to everything you would discredit yourself since you don’t demonstrate specific intrest / knowledge in only a few posts.
Thanks Sebastian.
Do you plan to offer email notification of e.g. new listings? It would nicely complement the RSS feeds.
Regards
Sebastian, thanks a lot for this great page! I have a problem with submitting new organisations, so maybe this way
UNICRI
UNSSC
UNLB
Thank you for your work!
A
Sebastian,
Thank you for your comprehensive site!
If job news are sent to readers automatically, the direct mailing would even much more have been appreciated.
Dear Michael,
this is absolutely possible, just search for the UN Job List e-mail newsletter and you will see how.
Cheers,
Sebastian
Dear Sebastian,
I surely did and nothing happened for misunderstandable reasons anyway.
I do appreciate your blog’s clarity and all the links because they present info required really practically, by a very logical way.
Thank you, thank you-I already own you a drink from a first cheque possibly issued by an employer your site to help me to “seduce”.
Tried clicking on links in firefox which really didn’t like the security certificate you use. Put me off. firefox 3 btw.
Hi Chris,
tried to contact you via e-mail but the address you entered bounced.
Few things:
1) the UN Job List doesn’t use SSL – where did the error occur?
2) the UN Job List links directly to VAs of the corresponding organisation. So please contact the organisation itself if there are issues with their sites.
3) Good that you are using Firefox
Cheers, Sebastian
I am trying to search for only P4 and P5 positions. How can I do that?
It would be really helpful if you could provide some definitions of Job Levels/Grades. To many of us, the levels are kind of cryptic. I have been browsing for hours trying to figure out what grade L3 or ALD3 would actually mean in terms of the hierarchy.
Thanks.
It would be of help if you could specifically describe these jobs i.e levels/grades and clearly state the basic requirements in terms of hierachy.
Thanks.
Hi Moses,
well, keep in mind that I’m not offering these jobs – I’m just a guy who compiles these jobs for your easy reference. However, to give you a bit of an idea, check this post here: http://www.rottmair.de/2008/08/02/contract-types-and-levels-at-the-un/
Hai,just to say hello.Looking up for vaccancies and decided to e-mail u.buye
Great website. However, when running a detailed search (where you can select grades and countries), Some of the links to not work any more. If this was a bug, it would be nice if fixed
My Dear,
Your website excellent and I would suggest an improvement in the manner that any browsed vacancy or page number need to ghange color as an indication that it is read.
I hope you agree to the improvement and we see it very soon.
Thanks and best regards,
Ghazi
My Dear,
Your website is excellent and I would suggest an improvement in the manner that any browsed vacancy or page number need to change color as an indication that it is read.
I hope you agree to the improvement and we see it very soon.
Thanks and best regards,
Ghazi
Hi Sebastian
Continued thanks for this highly useful service. Just wondering whether all the agencies on the ICSC link (http://icsc.un.org/joblinks.asp) are included in your jobslist.
The very best,
Greg
Is it possible to full-text-search of vacancies?
I want to search specific keywords in the whole vacancies.
Hi Sebastian,
Thank you for your services. Just wondering how long it takes to receive response on job applied.
Regards
James Akena
Hi Greg,
yes, hope to have all of them in the UN Job List. If I missed any, please let me know (not all of them have vacancies though so check if there are vacancies).
Hi Piskil,
sorry at this time no full-text VA search. The UN Job List only has the titles, duty station etc. So the main VA body is not on the UN Job List visible.
Hi James,
No idea, that really depends on the organisation you apply to. Since I’m not affiliated with any of those organisations there is no way I could know.
Happy New Year everyone!
Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
here also Sebastian, meanwhile from sunny Banda Aceh (a more welcoming climate than CPH by far, if I may say so…).
I just saw that your homepage does not reflect the current UNRWA vacancies listed here:
http://www.un.org/unrwa/employment/CurrentVacancies.html
Maybe you want to check this out.
Best regards, and hope you are fine,
Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
will have a look – normally the Galaxy part is covered. There is a whole website, the website UNRWAjobs which is currently not covered. I’m in ontact with them on getting them online but we’re not there yet.
Cheers, Sebastian
Hi Sebastian Rottmair, you are really doing a great job on this web. please i would like to know if fresh gaduates are opportuned to work with United Nations since most of the jobs require many yeras’ experince. please help me i am a graduate of Agriculture (animal Science). i love to work with FAO or other UNO bodies. I will be glad to read from you
Dear Sonaike,
thanks
Ok, what you ask for is tricky. I know that there are internships and/or you can volunteer but it is correct that you would need have some experience. A good way to get into the system if you are eligible for it is the JPO programme (check out http://www.jposc.org they are a good resource)
Good luck! Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
Your site is heaven-sent. Thank you very much for putting the effort into this.
The official UN site has driven me to distraction because it is for the initiated only – no information on any of the abbreviations they use in their adverts (such as “multiple D/S”) and very little on what the salary grades mean. If there are any websites out there that provide information for the un-initiated, would you be happy to link to them? I would be most grateful.
Elisabeth
Thanks Elisabeth – yes, if there are very useful resources I can link to them. I myself was thinking of creating some resource pages that would show some information about contract types and other useful things like statistics on organisations, duty stations etc.
Sounds great! Anything you can come up with, really. Maybe it could be the seed for a campaign for more transparency? I suspect an independent review of the jobs.un.org site would come to the conclusion that it is not exactly a shining example of best practice.
Just great, how did I get from looking for an interesting job to taking on the UN…?!
Great site Sebastian! As the UN is made up of so many acronyms, I feel it would be useful to have a mouseover feature that provides the full name of each acronym. Thanks, Ryan
Sebastian, I can only provide praise for your website, which is a “one-stop-shop” for all recruitment. Knowing that this is something you do in your free time, I would like to thank you so much for this, and wish you every success. You deserve it!!
Sebastian-
vielen Dank für diese wunderbare Seite- eine echte Erleichterung!!!!
Hi Sebastian,
Thank you very much for the site!
Is it possible to search for jobs with SSA as the Level/Grade? Could you add it to the search page somehow, perhaps in the ‘search for grade’ drop-down lists?
Regards,
Rob
Hi sebastian,
you are doing a wounderfull job.keep it up. you are realy helping job seekers or those looking for greener pastures like me.i just wish i can get a job with un.anyway where there is a will there is a way.
be blessed
winfred katiku
Thanks for all your effort on this site. Very useful!
Quick question: It appears that UNHCR is not among the orgs that can be selected for searching or for an email alert. Is that correct or am I missing something?
Hi Laurence,
thanks for your comment: No there is no intent to exclude UNHCR. Do you have a vacancy page of them? Then I will happily include them.
Thanks, Sebastian
Hi again,
My question was specifically about your input form for the email alert set up. I could select various orgs, but not UNHCR. Is that because you don`t have a job site to search for them? Or did you accidentally leave them out of your option list?
Thanks.
Thanks so much for this amazing website! You fixed all the flaws of unjobs.org and made it easy to keep an eye on new postings.
Hi Sebastian, I am one of the folks that actually landed a job after applying through your site..so thanks! I think your site does make a BIG difference in attracting people who just dont have time to mine so many different sites to find postings. Keep it up!
Just a heads up: The UN will be rolling over its contract types, and will be abolishing the ALD, L, and the 12 other types of contracts they have. They will instead just have 3 types…most folks dont know details yet, but I expect that it will call for a few changes on your site. This change is supposed to be effective starting July.
Thanks for a wonderful website.
HI,sebastian you ur doing a wonderful job.
godbless u.
Nickson.A.B
I think that WFP vaccancies are missing.
Anyway thanks a lot for your great work!
Hi Sebastian,
You should include International Court of Justice (ICJ) vacancies in the job search.
See: http://www.icj-cij.org/registry/index.php?p1=2&p2=5&p3=3
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Sebastian,
I understand this list doesn’t include offers for external consultants (Request for Proposals etc.). If there is another website you know of, I would be thankful for a hint.
This is a great website, though! I guess many people have been waiting for something like this.
Arnd
This is enormously helpful for those interested in working for the UN Family of agencies and can find postings all in one place. Thank you.
Hi there. I’ve long been visiting your site to check for UN vacancies and finally I’m back in the system. Now tell me, since I work in HR, how can we advertise our international positions in your site?
Thanks!
hey,
i think there is a problem with the reply massage on un job vacancies. i have not received any validation reply. kindly reply becoz i have not gotten the job am hurnting for.
yours faithfully
winfred katiku
Dear Sebastian,
Thanks for chatting with our colleagues in NY. Just wanted to point out that the links to any jobs.un.org post on Galaxy will not work because you have an https URL. They apparently can’t handle the secure link.
Regards,
Mark McCarthy
Dear Mark,
I will definitely look into that. Thanks for letting me know!
Best, Sebastian
Hello,
I don’t find UNFPA in the advance search, even though the organization is listed in your site.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Hang
Thanks for letting me know! I will add that once I’m back to my computer (could take a week or so).
Cheers, Sebastian
Excellent site. Very helpful!
Hi Sir
I think that the web positions of WFP is missing
may be I’m not very skillful in your web site.
Anyway I’m very glad to surf in a nice page and very useful.
Thanks a lot
Alberto
previously i had registered with u for alerts on jobs but i signed out.whenever i try to sign again am told i need to validitate your feed back which i do not have. please assist coz i need the alerts
bye for now
Winnie
Hi Winnie,
the issue was that you didn’t sign-up properly the last time. I reset the system for you, now it should work.
Cheers, Sebastian
Sebastian – first, THANKS for offering this site. It saves so much time, and allows us to cast a wide net for job searching. I think the links may have changed to a few organization’s job sites, though, as they reflect “0/0″ postings on the UN jobs list. BUT the org’s site DOES HAVE postings: FCCC, HCR, FPA, UNV, WB, WTO seem to be this way. thanks again!
Thanks Sebastian for that well-organized un job list!would like to know the salary range for that position. how long will be the response time from your end after I have submitted my application? Thanks a lot and take care!
sincerely,
asuncion
Dear Campbell,
thanks for letting me know – I’m working on it. Just to say that the UNV vacancies are under UNDP – they should be all there.
Cheers, Sebastian
Dear Sebastian,
The site is really very helpful. Thank you very much for your job!
But let me agree with Alberto Damiano,
positions of WFP are missing
http://www.wfp.org/about/vacancies
Cheers, Andrey
Hi Andrew and Alberto – the issue with WFP is that they have a roaster only. They do NOT publish real vacancies. That’s the reason they are not on the UN Job List.
Maybe, it is time for me to create a blank page explaining that and forward to their roaster application site.
Cheers, Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for a great tool to look for UN Jobs.
I noticed under the Vienna page that jobs from IAEA is not listed. Is there a reason for this, since I know they have jobs in Vienna at the moment.
Cheers,
Martin
Where can I find a list of the paygrade values? In other words, what is the actual amount for a paygrade?
on November 21st, 2009 at 10:23 pm #
[...] Lately, I received a lot of e-mails and comments about how to better find jobs on the UN Job List. Firstly, thanks everyone for sending me your feedback! I’m reading all of your mails and comments and I enjoy your feedback. If you have ideas, please let me know. [...]
Dear Bill,
the paygrade vary quite a bit. The issue is that they are only valid for a country since the UN pays a base salary plus a country/city specific post adjustment (to compensate for the cost of living in your duty station). There are salary calculators of UNDP out there if you search a bit.
Cheers, Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for the grade mapping, this is very useful. Would you be able to add how ICA levels compare to ICS and P levels?
Thanks,
Genna
Hi Sebastian,
The robot for UPU doesn’t seem to be working. I see 3 jobs there, but you have none.
http://www.upu.int/employment/en/index.shtml
Steve
UNICEF has changed their job site introducing a new e-recruitment function that is available from their home page.
Glad to see this site growing
!!! It’s looking better and better…
Hi Sebastian,
The UN secretariat is phasing out Galaxy and all new positions are now posted in careers.un.org
Thanks a lot for letting me know. The Inspira system is no the UN Job List now, too…
Hi Sebastian,
Great site, long overdue!
Is it possible to make the columns in each table sortable e.g by Duty Station, Grade, Expiry date, etc?
Thanks
Hi Peter,
there is a site where you can do this here: http://unjoblist.org/beta/ the trouble is that I didn’t roll it out to all of the site yet. I’ll put it on my list of todos however and will try to work on it.